Kevin Kilbane

You're desperate to be fit.

And if he's making himself available, you have to play him.

That's the way that I would look at it.

You've got to play Alphonso Davies.

But, again, I mean, I'm sure there is medical advice from Bayern Munich as well that Canada Soccer have got to consider here.

Look, you can't take the risk with him considering the extent of the injury that he had.

So, look...

I find it a little bit bizarre with what's happened around everything around Alphonso Davies.

Simply put, at the start...

We all knew he wasn't going to play the first game, yet there was still that thread that was being dangled in front of us.

Yeah, he's going to play.

He's going to play at some stage.

He's going to play at some stage in the group stage.

So Jesse Marshall said he was never going to be available.

That was never the plan.

So now he's going to be available for the knockout stage.

Again, we don't know if that's been just a line that's been fed to us right now.

But if he is fit and he makes himself available, Jesse simply has to play him.

And I would advise that you play him in more of an attacking role because Canada is...

two fullbacks right now.